na.omit is documented as "na.omit returns the object with incomplete cases
removed." and "At present these will handle vectors," so I expected that
when it is used on a list, it should return the same thing as if we subset
via is.na; however I observed the following,
> L <- list(NULL, NA, 0)
> str(L[!is.na(L)])
List of 2
$ : NULL
$ : num 0
> str(na.omit(L))
List of 3
$ : NULL
$ : logi NA
$ : num 0
Should na.omit be fixed so that it returns a result that is consistent with
is.na? I assume that is.na is the canonical definition of what should be
considered a missing value in R.
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